Urena lobata is becoming a noxious and invasive weed in rangelands, pastures, and undisturbed areas in the Philippines. This study determined the effects of seed scarification, light, salt and water stress, amount of rice residue, and seed burial depth on seed germination and emergence of U. lobata; and evaluated the weed's response to post-emergence herbicides. Germination was stimulated by bo...

abstract in order to evaluate the effects of rice conventional herbicides on rotational second crops (lettuce, cress, clover, canola and radish), soil microbial biomass and diversity, a field and glasshouse experiments were conducted in mazandaran province and research glasshouse of ferdowsi university of mashhad, respectively. five experiments were carried out for 5 second crop separately with...

growth irregularity and yield reduction in some transplanted rice growing area treated with thiobencarb (tb) has been reported particularly if tb is applied in non-flooded conditions, without any more information. this experiment was carried out in order to study the effect of time of herbicide application and time of flooding on response of rice and weeds to tb doses. the experiment was laid o...

this study was carried out in 2008 and 2012 in rice research institute of iran (rasht) in order to study the response of barnyardgrass and rice to oxadiargyl (oxa), butachlor (buta) and thiobencarb (tb) herbicides. treatments included herbicide doses in six levels up to three times the recommended rate, and time of application in two levels before transplanting (bt), and after transplanting (at...